Re: Pop Quiz

["Rev. Sidney Flack" <sgflack@prodigy.net>]

Following this argument and logic, then it was the Chinese who invented 
the projector when they built the first chambre noire, according to even 
those historians who credit it to Europe.

Peace!
Sidney

Trebor wrote:
> ......Well, projectors had been around for a long time (magic lanterns) and there were moving pictures in them long before the advent of cinema (or even photography).
>
> This whole question/answer thing really undelines how rarely anyone actually invents anything (in isolation).  Inspiration occurs against a background of ideas that have gone before.  The bloke history remembers gets all the credit.